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1 Book Cover to go here Offering a New World Theology (tentative title only) by Anne Julienne November, 2018 Prepared for perusal and comment by members of the PhiloSophia Meetup group, Sydney.
2 Table of Contents.. to go here.. Right now, God is calling us to let Him act through new forms, continuous with the old, as we human beings across the globe enter our strange new age. Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Towards a World Theology (published 1981, concluding sentence)
3 Chapter 1 Let us begin here, with Leonardo da Vinci s portrayal of Jesus as World Saviour (Salvator Mundi). As at the time of writing, November 2018, wikipedia had this to say about this painting: It was sold at auction by Christie's in New York to Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Farhan on behalf of the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture & Tourism on 15 November 2017, for $450.3 million, setting a new record for most expensive painting ever sold. The painting is to be on display at the Louvre Abu Dhabi but no date has been fixed for its unveiling. ( If Jesus is to save this world - and heaven knows it does need saving - then the icon of this redemption currently lies in the Islamic world. Because this painting lies under a cloud of uncertainty as to its veritable attribution and therefore real worth, it also presents as a possible fake, not worth what was paid for it.!1
4 In any case, no one in the Christian world was prepared to outbid the prince from the United Arab Emirates. For our purposes here, we simply need to note two things: the gesture of benediction of Jesus right hand and the semitransparent globe held in his left hand. We will be adopting a globe of this sort in our proposed New World Theology. Jesus dual nature as man and God may be suggested by the two curled fingers of the benediction. The trinity (God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) is represented twice: once in the three raised digits of the benediction, and again in the three bright dots on the sphere. However, those three bright dots are seemingly expanded to four in the bright fingertips of Jesus left hand with the thumb suggesting a unity arising out of the three and the four. These are common numerical motifs in myths and fairy tales and they are nicely summed up in this alchemical saying attributed to Maria Prophetissima: To sum up then, we have: 1. This is a portrait of a single person, the World Saviour. 2. He has a dual nature as both human and divine. 3. He is one component of a trinity. 4. There is a mysterious fourth in the mix. 5. Which brings us back to a higher unity. This is also expressed numerologically thus: = 10 Carl Jung, who studied alchemy and similar mysticisms very closely, was convinced that the mysterious fourth element in the mix was the feminine. Not exactly the female of the species homo sapiens, but something more cosmic or divine that found its form there, much as God the Father could be incarnated as God the Son. It s time now for an excursion into Zen Buddhism as this may be a good place to begin to make sense of the semitransparent sphere that Jesus holds in his left hand. One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth. (
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6 The first page of this chapter has been intentionally left blank because silence or a blank page is the best way to represent the non-verbal, pre-cognitive potential that the Chinese have (nevertheless) named the Dao, that the ancient Sumerians named Tiamat, and that the Hebrews named Tehom. The latter is translated in the King James Version of Genesis 1:2 as the deep. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. The two visual representations that open this chapter come from the series of ten pictures in the Zen Buddhist tradition called Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures. The text of the story, with its accompanying pictures, depicts the journey of its hero toward enlightenment and then back to the usual familiar world. There are many variants of this set of short poems, commentary and pictures. Some series end with enlightenment - that is, at stage 10 - but these two pictures accompany a series by the 12th century writer Kuoan Shiyuan in which enlightenment occurs at stage 8. Here is the Stage 8 commentary and poem, translated into English by D. T. Suzuki: The Ox and the Man Both Gone out of Sight. All confusion is set aside, and serenity alone prevails; even the idea of holiness does not obtain. He does not linger about where the Buddha is, and as to where there is no Buddha he speedily passes by. When there exists no form of dualism, even a thousand-eyed one fails to detect a loop-hole. A holiness before which birds offer flowers is but a farce. All is empty - the whip, the rope, the man, and the ox: Who can ever survey the vastness of heaven? Over the furnace burning ablaze, not a flake of snow can fall: When this state of things obtains, manifest is the spirit of the ancient master. Explore the Ten Bulls further here: Coming back now to the semi-transparent sphere held in Jesus left hand, it would seem to strongly resonate with these Buddhist, Taoist, and Middle Eastern ideas of an original, pure, and singular reality that predates or underlies all of the dualities that form the basis of our discernment of what is real and present in the world. The first image is attributed to the 15th century artist Tenshō Shūbun, the second image is by the 20th century artist Yokō Tatsuhiko. Both depict stage 8.!4 It is tempting to think of it as representing pure Being or perhaps the ground of Being but it is more paradoxical than that for it also represents pure Nothingness.
7 This is captured well in a strange mystical text that Jung wrote and published privately at about the time of his major quasi-schizophrenic breakdown. It was titled Seven Sermons to the Dead and began thus: The dead came back from Jerusalem, where they found not what they sought. They prayed me let them in and besought my word, and thus I began my teaching. Harken: I begin with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as fullness. In infinity full is no better than empty. Nothingness is both empty and full. As well might ye say anything else of nothingness, as for instance, white is it, or black, or again, it is not, or it is. A thing that is infinite and eternal hath no qualities, since it hath all qualities. This nothingness or fullness we name the PLEROMA. Therein both thinking and being cease, since the eternal and infinite possess no qualities. In it no being is, for he then would be distinct from the pleroma, and would possess qualities which would distinguish him as something distinct from the pleroma. In the pleroma there is nothing and everything. It is quite fruitless to think about the pleroma, for this would mean selfdissolution. We see here again the themes of non-duality, of being, nothingness, fullness, emptiness, swimming about as if in a thin quantum soup of sheer potential. It is striking to compare this with much current speculation as to what was there before the Big Bang. Since the Big Bang initiated the space-time continuum, there can have been no time or material reality before it happened. And yet some physicists cannot help themselves: they have come up with ideas strongly resembling these ancient intuitions. While the primordial soup was uniform, it remained stable, but once small irregularities appeared, somewhat like small islands of discernment, then suddenly the whole thing erupted, creating the space-time world as we now know it. If the Big Crunch is where we are heading eventually, then presumably the end will be like the beginning, only in reverse. Let us now move forward from the single translucent sphere and the physicists singularity to a place where duality begins and our world is somehow finally created.!5
8 Chapter 3 In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. That is how it all started according to the ancient Hebrew bible. The Christian bible offers an update: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. As we can see from Michelangelo s depiction of God creating the sun and the moon, this kind of creation involves an assertive, almost fierce, denotation and naming of things. It is all about language and cognition. The Dao De Jing offers a softer, more delicate, version: It was from the Nameless that Heaven and Earth sprang.. Here, there is no outside agent, no God, that dictates that the duality of Heaven and Earth will be proclaimed. The duality simply issues forth from the Dao or deep. Although it is common for the initial duality to be named Heaven and Earth, a duality of Good and Evil, of Hero and Villain, is also a powerful candidate for the fundamental duality of the world. In the ancient Sumerian epic of!6
9 Gilgamesh, the hero s uncivilised opponent is Enkidu who eventually becomes his friend. The carrier of Evil can thus be integrated into a more harmonious whole. This kind of possibility is always open to us, both in our individual and in our civilizational maturation. Now, in the 11th century, Chinese philosophy began to represent dualism within monism using a diagram that has evolved over the centuries into the modern taijitu: language, it is convenient that neither Yang nor Yin have any particular meaning. Yes, they can be and have been associated with distinctive opposites such male/female, light/dark, sun/moon, positive/negative, etc. These days, Jordan Peterson associates them with order/chaos in his own Maps of Meaning. However, to me, the beauty of this symbol is precisely its abstract nature. It can stand for any pair of opposites that appears in the world. It can also be adapted, through the use of colour, to denote more than one pair of opposites. This is what we will proceed to do in the coming chapters. First, however, we will pull apart the two fish so that they are joined only by the tips of their tails. Because the eye of the black fish is white and the eye of the white fish is black, there is enough remaining connection and inter-relatedness in the resulting symbol. One can even think of the white fish as having a black hole in its fullness, a hole that leads into the opposite fish. Likewise, the black fish has a white hole. See also: The white circling fish denotes Yang, while the black fish denotes Yin. When contemplating this through the English This symbol has then been set against the 15th century image of Stage 8 of the Ten Bulls. In this way, the duality does not overwhelm the underlying unity and the semitransparent sphere remains clearly in sight.!7
10 This is the basic template that we will use from now on. We will start by introducing a second pair of opposites to this basic two-dimensional surface or plain and we will use colours to distinguish the two pairs. We will then be in a position to use the resulting diagram as a contemplative tool for discussing the current state of affairs in the world as regards the religious landscape.!8
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